Hamp
Hamp is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 504th, in 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192027 births
- Best rank
- #504in 1892
- Since 1880
- 1,076people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,076 boys have been named Hamp in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 27 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 27 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hamp | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 99 | |
| 1890s | 84 | |
| 1900s | 87 | |
| 1910s | 174 | |
| 1920s | 179 | |
| 1930s | 138 | |
| 1940s | 133 | |
| 1950s | 104 | |
| 1960s | 60 | |
| 1970s | 12 | |
| 1990s | 6 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Hamp was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Hamp
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eddpeak 1919
- Mosepeak 1919
- Generalpeak 1918
- Elzapeak 1922
- Guspeak 1921
- Alfpeak 1916
- Claudpeak 1919
- Judgepeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.